prosecutions or investigations that involve someone with personal or political relationship

A DOJ regulation cited by Shaub states that employees may not supervise prosecutions or investigations that involve someone with a personal or political relationship

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WASHINGTON President Donald Trumps pick for acting attorney general Matt Whitaker is a close friend of Trumps 2016 election campaign cochair and a former government ethics chief said the friendship makes Whitaker unable to oversee impartially a politically charged investigation into the campaign